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This was a deadly, difficult and disturbing weekend for our city.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We’re actively working to recruit and retain our best officers to better protect Portlanders, and I’ve set a goal to hire 300 police staff over the next three years to get closer to minimum staffing levels for the Portland Police Bureau, my administration will continue to lead in prioritizing public safety, and we’re not going to stop until peace returns to Portland.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As a father, I was particularly struck by what happened this weekend with two small children being shot, i don’t know how anyone in this community could hear about or read about or in some cases personally experience the kind of horrific violence we’ve seen this weekend and feel anything other than utter despair and a profound sense of sadness.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have continuously witnessed unsanctioned camping in clearly unsafe locations, sometimes jarringly close to reads and freeways. You don't need to be a traffic engineer to sense that's not safe.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We can no longer justify allowing our most vulnerable community members to be exposed to the dangers of camping in freeway and high crash corridors.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I am disgusted that this offensive content was added to a training presentation for our police officers.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Many Portlanders no longer feel safe in their city, business owners have closed up shop for fear of doing business in high-risk areas. Commuters fear for their safety, whether taking public transport or going by foot. Parents are scared to let their children play outside.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It is clear, based on the public outcry, on themedia outcry, on the national front, that that strategy was not the right strategy, i think we can all acknowledge that.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Portland is unique in that we seem to be ground zero for alt-right groups to come into our town because they know they’ll get a response – and they do.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
With strategic planning and oversight, the Portland Police Bureau and I mitigated confrontation between the two events and minimized the impact of the weekend’s events to Portlanders.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
With strategic planning and oversight, the Portland Police Bureau and I mitigated confrontation between the two events and minimized the impact of the weekend’s events to Portlanders, in the past, these same groups have clashed with extremely violent and destructive results. This time, violence was contained to the groups of people who chose to engage in violence toward each other. The community at large was not harmed and the broader public was protected. Property damage was minimal.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Anyone who comes into our community and is spreading their hate, their racism, their xenophobia, their white supremacist predilections, all of that is very intimidating to people who are here, particularly people of color.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It is obvious from where I sit that we do not have adequate resources deployed on our streets in a proactive way, and so I will fight for additional resources for the police bureau, I will fight for more police officers and I will fight for more tools and whatever support the police bureau needs to get its job done.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Our community has what it takes to move forward to a much greater future.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Right now, we have to address the reality that we have hundreds, if not thousands, of tents choking virtually every public space in this city and that does not comport with the public’s expectations of what a humane response should be, while we want to be compassionate to those on the streets, we have to respect the fact that people don’t want their doorways blocked, they don’t want their businesses blocked, they don’t want sidewalks impeded.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It is my expectation, and the community's expectation, that the City remains committed to public safety and effective police oversight. City leaders will continue working in partnership with Portlanders, community organizations and police leadership to reform our community safety system.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Once they cross that line and engage in criminal destruction, they are no longer protesters they are criminals.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Tonight, the anarchists have called for more destruction, i've directed the police bureau to arrest and engage illegal activity whenever they can safely do so.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
These shootings always are traumatic for everyone involved and for our community, regardless of the circumstances, i want to offer my sympathy to the individual involved and to their family. My thoughts also are with the officers who were involved.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I became imminently concerned for my personal safety, as I had recently been physically accosted in a similar situation.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
He had no face mask on and got within a foot or two of my face while he was videoing me.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The tragedy of last night can not be repeated, it doesn't matter who you are or what your politics are -- we have to all stop the violence.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Dont think for a moment thatif you are participating in this activity, you are not being a prop for the reelection campaign of Donald Trump because you absolutely are.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
This is clearly a waste of federal resources and it's getting increasingly dangerous, we did not ask the feds to be here, we do not want them here. They're not helping the situation, they're not appropriately trained and we're demanding that they leave.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The acting secretary knows we feel that way, but we're happy to tell him again, the violence was being contained and started to de-escalate before they arrived. They intervened and escalated tensions to new levels.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
People are being literally scooped off the street into unmarked vans, rental cars, apparently, they are being denied probable cause, and they're denied due process. They don't even know who's pulling them into the vans.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
People are being literally scooped off the street into unmarked vans, rental cars, apparently. They are being denied probable cause. And they are denied due process. They don't even know who's pulling them into the vans.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Leaders must listen and respond to community. We must disrupt the patterns of racism and injustice, i am pulling police officers from schools.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I'm grateful that this was largely a peaceful event, police did an exemplary job of de-escalating the situation, keeping the extremists on both sides separated for the most part, and preventing people who wanted to engage in acts of violence from confronting each other.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
To all demonstrators: I urge you to keep up this effort.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
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